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• . . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love Is, Rocks, Water

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• The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

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  Nature, Power, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

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• Solitude is independence.

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  Being Alone, Creativity, Solitude

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

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  Maturity, Doe, Live For Others

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• If I know what love is, it is because of you.

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  Love, Life, Anniversary

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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• We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

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  Loneliness, Self, Soul

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• Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

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  Art, Grace, World

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• As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

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  Being Single, Soul, Literature

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• There is no reality except the one contained within us.

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  Philosophy, Reality, Unreal

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

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  Running, Stars, Fall

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

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• The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality and they never allow their own inner world to speak.

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  Reality, People, World

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• When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

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  Insanity, Insane, Method

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• No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

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  Flow, Fit, Wave

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.429, Macmillan

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• All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

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  Humor, Higher, Oneself

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• The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

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  Sympathy, Death, Sweet

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography”, p.218, Macmillan

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• There is a miracle in every new beginning

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  New Beginnings, Miracle

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• When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

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  Mean, Thinking, Goal

  "Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 140, 1922.

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• The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

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  Trust, Art, Magic

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• A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

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  Success, Men, World

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• Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

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  Communication, Different, Littles

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• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

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  Lonely, Men, Tree

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

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  Love Is, May, Evening

  Hermann Hesse (2009). “The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse”, p.65, Bantam

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• Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

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  People, Mind, Age

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• Your soul is the whole world.

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  Soul, Siddhartha, World

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.5, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

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  Stronger, Reason

  "Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays".

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